[arm-allstar] Allstar & WiFi Hotspots - Monthly Cost Guesstimate?

[Peter Buckley]

Allstar Hams - The top of Vail Mountain has no "line of site" top of Mountain to the Valley below.  Site is also just below the level of the mountain top Pine Trees - uWave not an option.  There is a ton of cell towers and Vail Mountain resort communications near by at the Mountain Top.
ERIC:  This is how I'm doing one of my Allstar nodes and at @ 10,000 ft you shouldn't have a problem even at 5.8 GHz.
Pete:  Eric approx. what is your monthly WiFi Hotstop cost?  Who is your cell provider for that Hotspot?

Robert:  Could you do P2P wireless from the mountain to town and piggyback somebodies broadband?
Pete:  Negative, no piggyback options.  That's why were considering a WiFi Hotspot - but need a monthly cost guesstimate.

ERIC: No cell company will Port forward. But you can solve this issue by a reverse ssh tunnel. Better to use p2p if you can afford the initial cost.
Pete:  Eric your above comment a non-issue.  Outbound only connections from top of Vail Mountain (Allstar Node) to our Allstar Server/Hub elsewhere on the Internet.
Outbound (only) Allstar connections - require no port forwarding.  Another major reason I prefer Allstar over IRLP.
Guys - still need some comments on Monthly (WiFi HotSpot - monthly Guesstimate costs) and recommended (by your personal experience) a reliable HotSpot vendor.
Thanks,
-pete  N0ECT

 

    On Tuesday, August 14, 2018 1:46 PM, Peter Buckley via arm-allstar <arm-allstar at hamvoip.org> wrote:
 

 To all experienced Allstar Hotspot Users....
Am looking for a WiFi Monthly Cost - Guesstimate..
We have a Mountain Top Repeater location (10,000 ft.) that can be easily supported by a WiFi Hotspot into Allstar.Plan is (then) to have that Mountain Top Allstar Node - connect into our Ham Club Allstar Server/Hub already online and connected to the Internet via a cable modem.
Am aware that total monthly WiFi/Hotspot cost will be dependent on the total amount of monthly data passed through the Mountain Top Allstar Node.
Am looking for some comments from Hams who are using HotSpots today (to get some idea on cost) and which WiFi HotSpot providers provide the best monthly deal.Verizon? AT&T? Sprint?  Those vendor Hotspots - all available in our geography.
Thanks!
-pete  N0ECT




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